Wednesday 25 August 2010

¿Que habría en un día perfecto?

Dormiría hasta las nueve y media cuando me despierto con el sol luciendo y mis canciones favoritas darían en la radio. Desayunaría unos pancillos con Nutella y tomaría un café con leche.
Después iría al gimnasio para hacer ejercicios de circuit training y Fight Club, después me daría un masaje.
Para entonces mis amigos de Francfort y Hamburgo han llegado a Londres y nos reuniríamos en Fortnum & Mason dónde tomaríamos Afternoon Tea, charlaríamos y reiríamos mucho.
Luego iríamos de compras a Bond Street y también a Kings Road, allí encontraríamos a Kylie Minogue. Al cabo de un rato Kylie nos invitaría a su casa porque los fotógrafos (paparazzi) son bastante molestos/pesados. Nos daría entradas para el espectáculo de su gira “Aphrodite” el año próximo.
Un poco más tarde mis amigos saldrían hacia por el aeropuerto para volver a Alemania. Yo me pondría en camino a Covent Garden para una representación de Romeo & Julieta del Royal Ballet con la pareja Alina Cojocaru y Johan Kobborg.
Después quedaría en un bar con Johannes Stepanek que es un bailarín del Royal Ballet que me gusta mucho. Hablaríamos mucho y decidiríamos que Johannes va a hacer un tour conmigo por Viena el mes que viene.
Volvería a mi casa muy alegre y soñaría bien.

Thursday 12 August 2010

Can pigs fly? Not sure, but I hope bunnymen can!

I must clearly have caught some kind of mad-cow-disease as I have agreed to take part in a charity skydive, organised through my firm.

On Thursday 9th September I'll get strapped onto a stranger, board a flimsy propeller plane with a plastic foil instead of a door and at 15,000 feet jump out, praying that the parachute - attached to the stranger on my back - will open without any problems and bring us safely back down to earth.
Well, I'm not simply doing this to prove my apparent insanity but actually for a good cause or rather two in this case. We are collecting money for London's Great Ormond Street Hospital and for the UNICEF Pakistan Flood Children's Appeal, please find some more information on both below.

I would be very grateful if you decided to sponsor me on this endeavour and donate some money by either using one of the below provided links to our fundraising pages or give me the cash stating which charity you'd like to support and we will forward it accordingly. No amount is too small, every Pound/Euro/Dollar will be appreciated!

I will share my photos and videos with you afterwards. Yes, a cameraman will join us on our fall as well, this might actually double my chance of survival, having another professional skydiver up there with me. These two guys will surely be my two best friends in the whole wide world for those 20/25 minutes of flight and fall! I suppose a Red Bull beforehand wouldn't go amiss either, apparently it gives you wings...

Please be as generous as possible. Thanks so much in advance!



http://www.justgiving.com/jordansjumpers

http://www.unicef.org.uk/myfundraising/ViewFundraiser.aspx?web=Jordans_Jumpers


Cleary Gottlieb Children's Charities Parachute Jump

A sequence of events, not least the tragedy unfolding in Pakistan, led us to decide to do a charity parachute jump.
The inspiration for the first jump in 2002 was Jordan and our colleague Terrie. Many of you will know that Jordan suffers from Muscular Dystrophy. The connection between this and our first charity, The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH), might not at first be entirely clear. His fantastic Mum explains:
"As you know Jordan has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and he has been going to and from GOSH for the last 11 years now (he is almost 16). He recently had an operation on both Achilles tendons to have them released in order to get his feet back into a right angle position. Where the muscles had started to waste they put both feet out of alignment and they were so twisted he couldn't even keep his feet on his footplates of his wheelchair. If he hadn't had the operation his legs would have also twisted and then eventually his spine.
GOSH have supported us all as a family for almost 11 years now and nothing is ever too much trouble. If I ever have any concerns they are always there at the end of the phone."
Need I say more?
Information on GOSH can be found at: http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/about_gosh/
Information on DMD can be found at:http://www.muscular-dystrophy.org/about_muscular_dystrophy/conditions/97_duchenne_muscular_dystrophy


You only have to open a newspaper or turn on the television to understand that the situation in Pakistan is serious and rapidly becoming worse. The number of people reported as being affected by floods is rising by hundreds of thousands each day, many of these are children. Current estimates are that one and a half million children are currently being directly affected. Without being there it's impossible to understand their suffering and misery. We are all so very, very lucky. UNICEF work to protect the interests of children throughout the world. Because of the magnitude of the disaster in Pakistan they have mounted an emergency appeal to fund their operations on the ground. They receive no money from the Disaster Emergencies Committee (DEC) or the United Nations budget and rely solely on voluntary donations to fund its emergency work.
Information on the UNICEF Pakistan Flood Children's Appeal can be found at: http://www.unicef.org.uk/emergency/emergency_detail.asp?emergency=66&nodeid=e66